What did the first Christians really believe about the historicity of the Nazarene
What were the beliefs of the first Christians about the nature of Jesus and why today we know nothing about them? Are these perceptions relevant to what was written in the Gospels a few decades later and through what process did they change over time? How historically accurate are the accounts of Jesus' wanderings throughout Galilee and what role did Old Testament prophecies play in the formation of Christian writing? And how, after all, was the place for a historical Jesus established within the academic community during the last centuries of our era?
In this book, the acclaimed American historian Richard Carrier presents in a clear and comprehensible manner the results of his thorough and multi-year study regarding the beginnings of Christianity. Following a stream of searches and questions that were raised for the first time in the years of the European Enlightenment, Carrier's conclusions highlight new and shocking data for the research field of the historicity of Jesus, calling into question the reliability of the events described in the New Testament.
"It is very helpful to have a breadth of knowledge and Richard Carrier belongs to that category of scholars! The arguments and data he presents in this new book are amazing, even for those who feel familiar with the modern debate about the historicity of the leading figure of Christianity."
Robert M. Price,
Professor of New Testament and editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism
"The book that fills a huge gap in the domestic bibliography, bringing the Greek readership into contact with the rapid developments regarding the newest understandings of the historical Jesus".
Greek Mythologists – www.mythikismos.gr
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